48 Scriptures About Your Identity In Christ
The Bible is full of passages that talks about who we are. Here are 45 Scriptures about your identity in Christ.
The Bible talks a lot about a lot of different things. On thing that we can see all through the Bible from Genesis to revelations is that God has many thought about us.
God chose to create this earth and everything is it. He has many plans and thoughts about it. he designed it all and have intentions with everything he creates.
In the Bible we can read about how God creates us in his image, how he leads his people in the old testament, how he send his only son to die for us when we messed up and how he guides the early church in the new testament.
There is so much we can learn about who God is, how he sees us and who we are in the word of God.
A Good Resource To Dig Deeper
On of the people I often listen to is Priscilla Shirer. She has a sermon on YouTube about our identity in Christ. I highly recommend you to watch that sermon if you have time. Here is a link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klkEKMTe3OY
In this blog post, we have summed up 45 scriptures about who we are and how God sees us. This blog post is very inspired by the sermon of Priscilla Shirer.
But let’s jump in and see what the Bible says about who we are.
48 Scriptures About You Identity In Christ
”Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
1 John 3:2 NIV
You are a child of God.
”Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”
Romans 5:1-11 NIV
You have peace with God.
”You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.”
Romans 8:9 NIV
The Holy Spirit lives on the inside of you.
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”
James 1:5 NIV
You have access to God’s wisdom.
“For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”
Romans 5:10-11 NIV
You are reconciled to God.
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:1-2 NIV
You are not condemned by God.
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1-2 NIV
You have been justified.
“and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ”
Philippians 3:9 NIV
You have Christ righteousness.
“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.”
2 Corinthians 5:20 NIV
You are Christ ambassador.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. “
1 John 1:9 NIV
You are forgiven and tenderly loved.
“For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life.”
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 NIV
You are a sweet fragrance of Christ to God.
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?”
1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV
You are a temple of where God dwells.
“but now He reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach.”
Colossians 1:22 ESV
You are blameless and beyond reproach.
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 5:13-16 NIV
You are the salt of the earth and light of the world.
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”
John 15:16 NIV
You are chosen by Christ to bear fruit.
“Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.”
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 GNT
You are joined with Christ.
“Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
Romans 8:17 NIV
You share in Christ inheritance.
“But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.”
1 Corinthians 6:17 NIV
You are one spirit with him.
“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”
1 Corinthians 12:27 NIV
You are a part of the body of Christ.
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:3 NIV
You are hidden by Christ in God.
“You were chosen according to the purpose of God the Father and were made a holy people by his Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be purified by his blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure.”
1 Peter 1:2 GNBUK
You are chosen by God.
“You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.”
1 Thessalonians 5:5 NIV
You are a child of light.
“Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.”
Hebrews 3:1 NIV
You are holy and you are sharing God’s heavenly calling.
“And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
1 Corinthians 6:11 NIV
You are sanctified.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
1 Peter 2:9 NIV
You are a member of a chosen race. You are a royal priesthood. You are holy nation. You are a people for God’s own possession.
“the people I formed for myself
Isaiah 43:21
that they may proclaim my praise.”
Created to proclaim God’s praise.
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.”
Colossians 2:6-7
You are firmly rooted and built up in Christ.
”We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.”
1 John 5:18 NIV
You were born of God and the enemy can not touch you.
”for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord
1 Corinthians 2:16 NIV
so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
You have the mind of Christ.
“In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians 3:12-19 NIV
You can approach Christ with boldness, freedom and confidence.
“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
Colossians 1:13-14 NIV
You have been rescued from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of Christ.
“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.”
2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
You have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:19 NIV
All your needs are met by God.
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV
You have been bought with a price.
“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.””
Romans 8:15
You have been adopted as God’s child.
”Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.”
Hebrews 10:19-22 NIV
You have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit.
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:28 NIV
You can know that everything will work for good for the one that loves God. You have been called according to his purposes.
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:36 NIV
You are free!
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. “
Romans 8:1-2 NIV
You are free from any condemning charges that are against you.
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39
Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ.
”if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.”
Colossians 1:23 NIV
You have been established, anointed and sealed by God.
“being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 1:6
The good thing that God has started in you, he will bring to completion.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.””
Acts 1:8 NIV
You are a personal witness of Christ.
“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”
Philippians 3:20-21 NIV
You are a citizen of heaven.
”For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
1 Corinthians 3:9 NIV
You are God’s coworker.
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 2:6-7 NIV
You are seated with Christ in heavenly places.
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10 NIV
You are God’s workmanship.
“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4:13
You can do all things in Christ that gives you strength.
In Jesus name.
More Blog Posts About Your Identity in Christ
I understand this list of scriptures is long and can be a lot to process. There are more blog posts on our blog that is about our identity in Christ so if you want to read more follow this link: https://underbartskapad.com/category/encouraging-bible-verses-en/identity-in-christ-en-en/
